Improved Science Reporting?

[Papias]

Scientists have long suffered with poor reporting by journalists who simply don't understand science, and write errors in their articles. Worse, many times the reporters intentionlly exagerrate disagreement so as to make the story sound more sensational, and hence sell papers.

For instance, when another ape-human transitional fossil is found, which helps shed light on human evolution, journalists may be incorrectly hype it as "Ape-man skull upsets notions of human evolution, textbooks will need to be revised!".

Anyway, I saw this article today, and the writing seems better. Are things improving?

It includes:

Overwhelming evidence suggests birds evolved from dinosaurs some 150 million years ago, but one of the missing pieces to the evolutionary puzzle is how such birds took to the air.

from: Fossilized Bird Brains May Yield Secret of First Flights - Yahoo! News

So, probably not a thread worth much discussion, just a thought.

Papias

 

[Faith.Man]

Scientists have long suffered with poor reporting by journalists who simply don't understand science, and write errors in their articles. Worse, many times the reporters intentionlly exagerrate disagreement so as to make the story sound more sensational, and hence sell papers.

For instance, when another ape-human transitional fossil is found, which helps shed light on human evolution, journalists may be incorrectly hype it as "Ape-man skull upsets notions of human evolution, textbooks will need to be revised!".

Anyway, I saw this article today, and the writing seems better. Are things improving?

It includes:


from: Fossilized Bird Brains May Yield Secret of First Flights - Yahoo! News

So, probably not a thread worth much discussion, just a thought.

Papias

Your article linked to another article I found interesting.

Genomic Fossils Reveal Explosion of Life 3 Billion Years Ago - Yahoo! News

I think the potential problem here is the basis for these mathematical computer models to predict actual, verifiable evidence.

 

[AnswersInHovind]

Wait.... did you just link us to an article that supports one side of an argument, but then also looks critically at it? I don't want to click it, I feel its a trick and there will be a virus on the other end! No such article could exist!

 

[shernren]

I liked the article; really bad headline though. It's not as if there's any one "secret" of first flights which would be revealed by the study of the evolution of bird brains; "clues" would have been better.

And the pun-potential went completely unharnessed! Bird brains? Flight control? [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]pit renovations? The flock you lost (flocculus)? Intelligent Falling? (Okay, that last one only applies to devoted readers of The Onion.)